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details will help others. once the book came out, i felt incredibly free. i felt a huge weight off my shoulders. hello and welcome to bbc news. a historic agreement to protect the world s oceans has been approved, after ten years of talks. the high seas treaty aims to safeguard marine life in 30% of areas that don t belong to any single country. only about 1% of these areas are currently protected. the deal is being hailed as a massive step by climate activists, as our reporter esme stalla rd reports. the ship has reached the shore. cheering and applause it took all night, but countries from around the world finally agreed on how to protect the high seas. high seas are international waters that aren t controlled by any nation. we will formally adopt the text in all six official languages of the united nations. high seas are international waters that aren t controlled by any nation. they make up two thirds of the world s oceans and play host to most of our planet s marin ....
From plants and animals found in the high seas should be shared between nations. several important drugs, including treatments for covid, hiv and cancer, were developed from marine life. the potential for profit is huge. but no one knows how much ocean resources are truly worth, nor how they could be split. it s a little bit hard to even wrap our heads around how big and how distant these areas are. if you imagine, like, a big high definition wide screen tv and if only, like, three or four of the pixels on that giant screen are working, that s kind of our knowledge of the deep ocean. we don t know so much of what s going on. countries will need to meet again to formally adopt the treaty. but for many, now there will be much relief. esme stallard, bbc news. i m joined now byjessica battle, senior global ocean governance and policy expert at wwf. ....